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UNITED STATES ATENT Enron.

GEORGE W'. LYNCH, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO THE BUHL STAMPINGCOMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

LANTERN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Iietters Patent No. 579,883, dated March30, 1897.

Application filed June 15, 1896. Serial No. 595,668. (No model.)

To all whomit may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. LYNCH, of Detroit, in the county of Wayneand State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvement inLanterns, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists in an improvement in lanterns, hereinafter fullydescribed and claimed.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the complete lantern; Fig. 2, anelevation showing the globe raised; and Fig. 3, a side elevation, Figs.2 and 3 being partly broken away.

The lantern shown is of the tubular class, A representing the oil-fount,B the globe, O the draft-tube, L the bell, and K the perforated plate,on which the globe rests. All these parts are old and not of myinvention.

K represents the perforated base-plate upon which the globe rests and towhich the guard is secured.

F represents an eye secured to one side of the base-plate K, whichencircles guide-rod E, whose ends are secured to one of the tubes J.(Shown in Figs. 1 and 2.)

II represents a bent lever which is pivoted to the inside of the othertube J bya strap I, and the short arm of said lever is pivoted to oneend of a link G, the other end of which is pivoted to the base-plate Kopposite eye F.

D represents a guide which runs from the bell up through keepers on thedraft-tube to guide the bell and globe in their vertical movement, inaddition to the guide furnished by the-draft-tube C.

When the globe is in its lowest position, as shown in Fig. 1, bypressing the long arm of lever H to the right, Fig. 1, the short arm isswung upward and, through the link G, raises base-plate K, and with itglobe B and bell L, the globe and bell being guided by guide-rod E,draft-tube O, and guide D. WVhen the bell is lifted to its uppermostposition, it is locked automatically in said position through the anglewhich the link G assumes, as shown in Fig. 2, the downward pressure ofthe bell tending to force the outer end of said link against theair-tube J, but by reversing the motion of the long arm of the lever Hthe bell is easily and smoothly lowered into place.

I prefer to make the long arm of the lever K curved, so that when in theposition shown in Figs. 1 and 3 it will spring slightly behind the innersurface of the air-tube J, as shown in Fig. 3, so'asto lock bell B inits lowest position.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a tubular lantern, the combination with the base-plate K, and meansfor guiding it in its vertical movement, of the lever H pivoted near oneend to the tube J, and the link G pivoted at one end to the saidbase-plate and pivoted at its other end to the short arm of the lever H,the long arm of said lever being curved as shown to permit its end to besprung behind the'air-tube and thus lock the base-plate in itsnloweredposition, substantially as described.

GEORGE IV. LYNOI-I.

WVitnesses AMELIA J. WILLIAMs, FREDK. P. SMITH.

